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Old 18th Feb 2018, 09:23
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Lordflasheart
 
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There might be something of interest to the OP in these old threads.

V-Force dispersal query

V Bomber dispersal airfields after 1968

Dunsfold

My understanding of the terminology is that the V-force had specifically constructed and fully-serviced QRA pans, in which each segment (of up to four) held one aircraft.

The term ORP - Operational Readiness Platform - was an earlier, more generalised un-serviced hard strip fully contiguous with the runway end, on which you could park as many fighters as you could squeeze in. Fighter Command airfields might theoretically have as many ORPs as runway ends - and some not even at the end, if the runway was later lengthened .

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